Rosalea Monacella
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Rosalea Monacella is a registered Landscape Architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, USA, South America, Europe and Australia that explore design at the nexus of the urban and natural environments, and has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards and grants related to her practice based research as co-founder of the OUTR Research Lab at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.
Rosalea’s expertise is in the transitioning of the urban environment through a careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research brings together complex urban issues and advanced digital modelling techniques for the generation of sustainable urban futures. Her design approach is one that simultaneously considers forces from the ’ground-up + top down’ through a careful and rigorous exploration of complex economic, ecological, and social systems that shape an ever-changing city.
For ten years she has acted as chief editor leading the development of Kerb Journal to become a significant publication in the discipline that engages and challenges the discourse of landscape architecture.
She holds a PhD from RMIT University, a Masters in Landscape Urbanism from the AA School London, UK, and a Bachelor of Architecture RMIT University.
Courses
Projects
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Transmission Right of Way
Rosalea Monacella, Instructor
Spring 2020
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Right to Grow: A Manifesto
By Kira Clingen
Rosalea Monacella, InstructorSpring 2019
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Return to Pleasant Island: A study of Nauru Island
Rosalea Monacella and Craig Douglas, Instructors
Fall 2018
Exhibitions
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Energy||Power
Shaping the American LandscapeRosalea Monacella, Curator
Craig Douglas, ResearcherJAN 24 – MAR 13, 2020
Events
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Setting the Course: Future Core Studio Pedagogies in Landscape Architecture
Craig Douglas, Panelist
Rosalea Monacella, Lead Faculty